STUDENT ELIGIBILITY FOR BUS SERVICE
The following requirements are set by law:
--Elementary students living more than two miles--and high school students living more than three miles--from their designated school will be furnished transportation.
--Students may be required to meet a school bus on an approved route a distance of not more than three-fourths of a mile from their home. Distances may exceed three-fourths of a mile when snow/emergency routes are necessary.
--When transportation by school bus is impracticable or where school bus service is not available, the Board may require the parents or guardians to transport their children to the school designated for attendance. The parent or guardian will be reimbursed for such transportation as designated by statute.
--Distance to school or to a bus route will be measured only on the public highway. The Board will determine the safest and most passable route, which will start in the roadway opposite the private entrance to the residence of the student and end in the roadway opposite the entrance to the school grounds or designated point on the route.
--Students attending nonpublic schools will be provided transportation in accordance with the provisions and restrictions of the statutes.
Note: For the purpose of determining the distance a student must live from his/her designated school before he or she is entitled to transportation, "high school" means a school which commences with either grade 9 or grade 10, as designated by the Board of Directors under their policy organizing the schools' instructional pattern.
Legal References: Iowa Code Sections 285.1 et seq.; Chapter 321
Iowa Administrative Code 22.1 (1) through (6)
Cross Reference: 702 and all subcodes (all pertain to transportation)
Adopted: January 13, 1986
Reviewed: February 13, 1995
March 8, 1999
December 15, 2003
August, 2006
August, 2008
December 16, 2013
Revised: April 10, 1995